#asl langblr

[justeunmetamorphe]

Hello! Salut! Saluton!

I go by Static or Métamorphe (they/them, iel/iels), I’m 22 years old, and this is the little langblr I started as an aspiring polyglot.

For right now this is just a WIP introduction post, but I am studying more right now so I found it fitting to make one that goes over the languages I’m learning!

My native language is English and I’ve been learning French as a second language casually for about 10 years (and yet I’m still at about A2!!).

My target languages are:

Canadian French

American Sign Language (ASL)

Russian

Spanish

French has been getting difficult for me so I’m kind of distracting myself with Russian and Spanish… but! I want to get more familiar with ASL specifically. Hopefully someday son I can say that I’m above A2/Level 1 in some of these languages!!

Some other languages I’m not currently focused on, but am extremely interested in learning are:

Arabic

Hindi or Punjabi

Mandarin Chinese

Irish (Gaielge)

Welsh (Cymraeg)

My big interests right now include languages (especially conlangs and slang/cants like Polari!!), science (especially life sciences!), and philosophy.

I think that’s all for now… stick around for more I guess!

(btw this is a side blog so I will be following from a different account)

[psychoticstudies]

Hello and welcome!

My name is Doom and I’m a local idiot with an interest in languages. I’m not new to tumblr (I used to have a studyblr from like 2015 to 2020, crazy to see that a lot of the people I used to know are still here!) but haven’t been on in a few years so decided to start fresh. This account will probably be a combination studyblr/langblr.

A little about me, I suppose:

pronouns:

English: it/its, ve/vir/virs

French: ael

German: xier

age:

I am over 21, so if you are younger and uncomfortable with adults, feel free to block/DNI with me! It will not hurt my feelings /gen :)

along those lines, if you do have an issue with me, feel free to reach out! or if i follow you and you don’t want me to, again, you can block me! everyone should be comfortable in their own spaces. :) /gen

miscellaneous:

INTJ

my blog is a safe space for disabled/lgbtq+/BIPOC individuals!

i function on tone indicators, so if I make an original post, it’ll be full of them (common ones i use: /gen (genuine), /nm (not mad), /j (joking), /lh (lighthearted), /gen q (genuine question), i may also include them in the tags!)

I’m disabled and have several diagnoses, but I’m only really comfortable talking about my autism! 💚

academic interests:

social sciences + humanities major -> eventual goals to become a professor

languages

medical terminology (I work in the field, so my reblogs may reflect that)

languages I know/study:

English: native

French: intermediate-level (B1/B2), have studied it for six years.

German: beginner (A0/A1), it’s my partner’s native language so I have to learn it!

Arabic: beginner, I began studying it at university a few years ago, specifically Levantine Arabic! Then COVID hit and classes were moved fully online and our prof ghosted us so I gave up for a bit :( But I want to pick it up again!

ASL: beginner, I am HoH and autistic, so I go nonverbal sometimes. My partner and I have used sign to get through those moments where I can’t speak, so it has been very useful for us. I also would love to get more involved in the d/Deaf/HoH community, so ASL is a must

languages I want to learn:

Spanish

Russian

Chinese

This list will honestly probably only get bigger as time goes on 😅

hobbies:

reading

writing

gaming

buying books and not reading them

collecting signed/exclusive editions of books

crocheting

goals:

get back into a good studying habit

review french to ensure i stay at b2-level, try to cross into c1

get to a2 level of german by the summer

build up social media accounts

og posts will be tagged: #prythianspeaks

if you want me to see your posts, tag me at: #prythianlooks

I am so glad to be back and part of the studyblr/langblr communities. This saved my studying career starting when I was 15 and inspired me to keep going. Hopefully I can spark that love for learning all over again! 💚

LAST UPDATED: APRIL 16, 2024

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Today, in “I’ll take any good news I can find”:

A production of Romeo and Juliet with Deaf actors signing their lines has been referred to as bilingual! Not just “accessible” or “diverse” but also BILINGUAL!

This makes me happy because the general idea of ASL (and other signed languages) is that they’re just a manual version of the spoken language. By that logic, Norwegian is just a higher-latitude version of German. Signed languages are languages of their own! With unique vocabulary, grammar, and dialects!

[maniclearner]

hey!! so ive been logged off from this account up until now, mainly bc my life has been hectic as hell. i switch schools and moved, on top of taking time for my physical health. 

I want to get back on here! it was a great motivational source so why not boot it back up!

As for learning habits/themes right now, im learning Turkish and ASL, and im going to start computer science classes this spring!

[cup-noodle]

the cruelest thing about the world is that there's so many languages and a girl can't learn all of them

[salvadorbonaparte]

The last time I looked into finger spelling I still went by a different name so I was like oh shit I gotta memorise a completely different order of letters now

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you speak a Sign Language

[unclepolyglot]

Originally posted here on reddit.

"Hello everyone, I am a PhD student at the University of Georgia studying sign second language acquisition. I am looking for hearing ASL learners to take part in an exploratory study. If you have the time to help out a poor grad student I would greatly appreciate it!"

I'm not the OP but she gave me permission to signal boost this here. Please participate if you can!

[the-ambitious-academic]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a list of online resources for learning ASL. It seems like it was put together by their ASL and Deaf Culture Club, so many thanks to them!

[hippo-pot]

Now that I've got Communities figured out a bit: Hello!!! If you are actively learning American Sign Language, you are invited to come join our group! https://www.tumblr.com/communities/american-sign-language-learner I'm honestly not sure if you can just hit 'join' from there, so if you can't, just reply or message me and I can add you!

(If you're not actively learning but want to join anyway for some reason... I guess that's fine haha, go for it. If you're fluent, welcome, that's cool of you to want to hang with us. If you don't know any ASL at all, welcome, there's some resources on the About page if you want to get started 🙂)

[saltiestgempearl]

Okay, so langauge side of tumblr...

I'm watching a video to try to wrap my head around the basic core structure of a sentence in American Sign Language, but I'm struggling with the way it's being explained as a "topic + comment" structure.

I'm hoping to figure out what the core word order is, because that makes the most sense to me, so let me take one of the sentence from the video I'm currently watching where she's signing that she does not like ice cream.

[Ice cream] [I] [like + negation].

In English, it's: I do not like ice cream. [I] [like + negation] [ice cream]. English is primarily a Subject, Verb, Object, or SVO language.

In Japanese, it's: 私はアイスクリームが好きではありません。 [I] [ice cream] [like + negation]. Japanese is primarily a Subject, Object, Verb, or SOV language.

So is American Sign Language primarily an Object, Subject, Verb, or OSV language?

[thecommunalfoolboy]

Also as mentioned in my pinned post I’ll edit fanfics for free!!!! Cringe needs to die and I’m majoring in screenwriting so I think it’d be a lot of fun. I’ll even help brainstorm ideas if a fic is in development! I wanna help beginning writers put out the best they can. I also speak German and I’m learning asl, so if you need translations or descriptions of signs in your fic i can 100% help with that. Google translate sucks and I’ve seen so many fucked German sentences in tf2 fics lmao. So yeah just dm me if ur interested!!!

[flockofphoenixes]

[alteratlas]

Where are we going with this?

Looking ahead to the summer season, I'm struggling to figure out what is reasonable to expect of myself goal-wise. Let's start off with how comfortable I feel with each language in general. I currently have self estimates on what my CEFR would be for each which I plan to break down later. (I'm not particularly a fan of how CEFR works but it's what I've seen the most on here.) I think I want my overall goals to be focused on the meaning behind those scores, particularly in reaching higher levels of comfort/ease when using said languages. Here they are in order of importance to me:

Arabic:  Currently - Between A2 and B1, closer to B1 Want to reach - Higher B1 or B2

Here I am counting Arabic mostly as FusHaa, Shammi, and Masri which make up most of the contexts I'm in. I'll probably do a focus on Yemni and Iraqi Arabic further in the future... Inshallah I'm feeling relatively confident in this since it is my highest priority. I want to reach the point where it feels easier to grasp new words from context and just soak the language in.

Spanish:  Currently - A1 Want to reach - Between A2 and B1, closer to B1

This one might be the most ambitious considering I have never studied Spanish before. I do think I have a leg up here vocab and speech wise compared because I already speak a Romance language, but the grammar portion is going to be interesting.

ASL:  Currently - A1 Want to reach - ?

ASL here is bit odd for me. I'm not sure if I should be learning American sign language or another signing language because I don't really know what region of the world I will settle in. Either way, I think it's a good introduction to HOH and Deaf culture for now that I hope to expand upon continuously.

Romanian: 

Currently - B2

Want to reach - Between C1 and C2

I feel relatively confident in this one despite it being so low on my priority list. I think the real challenge will be making sure to maintain practice with it rather than the difficulty of reaching the nuances of the higher levels.

------ I hope to return to this post at the start of September with joy. See you then future Atlas... Make yourself proud!

[immersionfrancaise]

“Envision a piano. ASL is broken down into many different grammatical parameters. If you assign a different parameter to each finger as you play the piano -- such as facial expression, body movement, speed, hand shape and so on, as you play the piano -- English is a linear language, as if one key is being pressed at a time. However, ASL is more like a chord -- all 10 fingers need to come down simultaneously to express a clear concept or idea in ASL. If just one of those keys were to change the chord, it would create a completely different meaning.”

[fitgothgirl]

Have had little lull with my Russian and Spanish on Duolingo the last couple weeks, but just downloaded an ASL app! I got really into the alphabet and few signs in late elementary school/early middle school but never went beyond that, but I’ve always been really interested. It started in like 2nd or 3rd grade when I had to go to my older sister’s classroom before going home (I forget why she took just a little longer to get out than me) and they had an ASL alphabet poster that I would just focus on and practice every time. Then my parents got me an ASL vocab book for Christmas that I would pore over, although I only remember a couple of those signs by now. Also I never learned any grammar/how to put together a full sentence haha. (Many people think signing is just word-for-word but I’ve learned it’s not.)

I do wish it was more popular though. I remember a long time ago riding the bus somewhere and two friends were sitting apart but they were still taking across the way by signing. I remember it well bc they were blatantly looking at me and smiling/laughing while signing so pretty sure they were being dicks lmao but outside of that I was still thinking how cool it was that they could silently talk across a noisy/crowded bus. It’d be awesome if any of my friends could get into too for any situation where taking is difficult; we do go to concerts a lot haha. Also that’s just all the better for deaf/HOH people who truly need/could benefit from sign language! Signing isn’t super helpful if only deaf/HOH people know it… I worked with a girl who was congenitally deaf and even she was rusty on her ASL since it had proven to not be useful enough - she was more used to reading lips (I was thinking of her a lot when covid hit and everyone had to mask 😭).

Btw the app is PocketSign! Seemed the best option of the free options, and the cheapest of options if you decide to go paid ($6/mo, NOT charged yearly like duo or other apps…) But the unpaid option is a good deal more limited. But I just signed up for paid straight away haha.